George Meredith Quotes

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

War is the science of destruction.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

War is the business of barbarians.

War is an abstraction.

The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

War is no damn football game.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

We are muddled into war.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is the province of danger.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is at its best barbarism.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

God grant us a war.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.